Ella Fitzgerald : The Best of the Early Years

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YOUNG ELLA
ELLA FITZGERALD, vocal on all tracks, accompanied by:
CHICK WEBB and His Orchestra - may 2,1938
1. A Tisket-A Tasket (Fitzgerald - Van Alexander) - arr.: Van Alexaner
TEDDY WILSON and His Orchestra - march 17, 1936 Teddy Wilson (p), Frank Newton (tp), Benny Morton (tb), Jerry Blake (cl), Teddy McRae (ts), John Trueheart (g), Leemie Stanfield (b), Cozy Cole (dm)
2. My Melancholy Baby (Norton - Burnett) (02:36)
3. All My Life (Mitchell) (05:35)
BENNY GOODMAN and His Orchestra - november 5, 1936
4. Take Another Guess (Mencher - Newman - Sherman) (08:46) (08:46) - solos: Goodman (cl)
5. Goodnight My Love (Revel - Gordon) (11:14) - solos: Goodman (cl)
6. Did You Mean It? (Greer - Dixon) (14:21)- solos: Goodman (cl), Vido Musso (ts)
ELLA FITZGERALD and Her Savoy Eight - december.21, 1936
7. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Secunda - Jacobs - Chaplin - Cahn) (16:41)
CHICK WEBB and His Orchestra - december 17,1937
8. If Dreams Come True (Sampson - Goodman) (19:51) solos: Sandy Williams (tb)
ELLA FITZGERALD and Her Savoy Eight - may 3, 1938
9. You Can’t Be Mine (Johnson - Webb) (22:19) - solos: Teddy McRae (ts), Taft Jordan (tp)
ELLA FITZGERALD and Her Famous Orchestra - june 29, 1939
10. Stairway to the Stars (Parish - Malneck - Signorelli) (25:23)
11. I Want the Waiter (Werner) (28:40)- solos: Taft Jordan (tp), Teddy McRae (ts), Tommy Fulford (p) Same - january 8, 1941
12. Three Little Words (Ruby - Kalmar) (31:48) - solos: Teddy McRae (ts), Tommy Fulford (p) Same - march 31, 1941
13. My Man (Willemetz- Pollack -Yvain) (34:21) solos: Tommy Fulford (p) Same - july 31, 1941
14. I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me (Gaskill - McHugh) (37:23)
15. I Must Have That Man (McHugh - Fields) (39:56)
16. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (Austin - McHugh - Mills) (43:00)
solos: Elmer Williams (ts), Tommy Fulford (p)
17. I Got It Bad (Ellington - Webster) (46:20)
ELLA FITZGERALD with the INK SPOTS - november 3, 1943
18. Cow Cow Boogie (Carter - Raye - Paul) (48:35) - solos: John McGhee (tp) Same - august 30,1944
19. Into Each Life… (Fisher - Roberts) (52:57)
20. I’ m Making BelieveI’ (Gordon - Monaco) (54:38)
ELLA FITZGERALD acc. by Vic Schoen and His Orchestra - october 4, 1945
21. Flying Home (Hampton - Goodman) (57:48) - solos: Moe Wechsler (p)
ELLA FITZGERALD with LOUIS JORDAN’ s Tympany Five - october 8, 1945 including Louis Jordan (as, voc), Aaron Izenhall (tp), Wild Bill Davis (p)
22. Petootie Pie (Pack - Paparelli - Leveen) (01:00:14)
23. Stone Cold Dead in the Market (Hendricks) (01:02:53)
ELLA FITZGERALD’s V-Disc Jumpers - october 12, 1945 (V-Disc session) Charlie Shavers (tp), Lou McGarity, Peanuts Hucko (cl), Al Sears (ts), Buddy Weed (p), Remo Palmieri (g), Trigger Alpert (b), Buddy Rich (dm)
24. I’ll Always Be in Love with You (Roby - Green - Steps) (01:05:31)
25. I’ll See You in My Dreams (Jones - Kahn) (01:09:53)
26. That’s Rich (Oliver) (01:14:01)
Ella Fitzgerad, born at Newport News, Virginia, on April 25, 1917, was
19 at the time of the Teddy Wilson session above, the older here. Two years later “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” was her first hit. This collection chronicles her career from then, until the end of World War II, and includes some of her best records of the period.
Few years later Norman Granz, the man who invented JATP (Jazz at the Philharmonic), would become her manager helping to build her into the top star that we know.
Ending our compilation with a kind of Jam Session (a Granz specialty) for V-Disc, is thus no less than appropriate.